Before the natural disaster, the total population of Zezhou was close to 2.5 million, which was the least populated state among the eleven states of the Dali Empire.

Many of the young and middle-aged men in Zezhou were lured by the propaganda of the Guangming Sect to join the Guangming Army, and the total strength of the Guangming Army in Zezhou exceeded 130,000, and most of the soldiers of the Guangming Army were killed in battle, and only about 40,000 were captured by the Yun Family Army.

There are many young and middle-aged men who have joined the Guangming Army, and there are more young and middle-aged men who have been recruited to defend the city by the Shangguan army and the local government, and the army of the Shangguan clan has a total of more than 80,000 people, and during the attack and defense of Dingxiang City, the Shangguan clan also encouraged the people of the city to defend the city together, and in the end, only a small part of the 80,000 troops of the Shangguan clan survived, and most of them were still absorbed by the Guangming army, and they may be among the Guangming army captured by the Yunjia army.

A big war that affected the whole of Zezhou made Zezhou decay, there are many widows and lonely people, young and middle-aged men are the pillars of a family, the pillars of the family are gone, how long can this family exist, maybe wait until a few years after Zezhou returns to normal, those young adults who survived this war, as long as their character is not too bad, can enjoy a happy life.

The current Zezhou must not start the war again, and urgently needs time to recuperate, even if Yun Yi wants to start a large-scale war, he will wait a few years, and when those teenagers grow up, the Yun family army has a new source of soldiers.

Yunyi has formulated a plan for the future development of Zezhou, and land reform is only one of them, at least so that the people can have enough to eat, so that they have time to do other things; The second is the development of education, funded by the Yun family to establish primary schools and middle schools in various parts of Zezhou, in order to cultivate a large number of talents loyal to the Yun family; Third, the development of commerce, because of the war, the commercial activities of Zezhou have been seriously damaged, if a region wants to develop, there must be normal commercial activities, Yunyi attaches importance to business, but will also formulate various rules for business, all businessmen who violate the rules will be severely punished; Fourth......

Yun Yi informed Yun Yuankai of his plan, how to implement it, that is, Yun Yuankai, the governor of Zezhou, got the matter, and Yun Yi just needs to watch from behind to prevent accidents.

In addition, there are prisoners of the Guangming Army to deal with, the officers and warriors in the captives have been separated from the ordinary soldiers, and the Yunjia Army will send troops to escort the ordinary people in the captives to Huiyunhua County to speed up the construction of the railroad in Yunhua County, as for those officers and warriors, they have all been abolished by the Yunjia Army and imprisoned in the prison of Zezhou City.

After all arrangements were made, the 1st and 2nd Divisions of the Yunjia Army, except for some of the personnel, had already moved to the four counties of Helin, Hongjie, Huichuan, and Huwei to guard against the enemy in Zezhou, which was adjacent to Laizhou and Hezhou.

Zezhou City is still the core of Zezhou, Yun Yi decided to temporarily leave 3,000 people in Zezhou City to garrison, led by Yun Qing of the ninth order of the day after tomorrow (nominal), 3,000 people is enough for a city that has experienced two major wars, enough to deal with any possible problems, and there is no longer any force in Zezhou that can pose a threat to the Yun Clan, and the possible threats are mainly from Laizhou and Hezhou

Since Yun Yuankai came to Zezhou City, Yun Yi stayed in Zezhou City for another five days, and only after seeing that Yun Yuankai handled everything in an orderly manner and did not make any mistakes, Yun Yi was ready to leave.

In these five days, two clansmen from the Dingxiang Shangguan clan also came to Zezhou City.

In order to weaken the influence of the Shangguan clan on Dingxiang County, Yun Yi had asked Shangguan Hongbo to move the Shangguan clan to Zezhou City, and now Zezhou City is under the control of the Yun clan, Shangguan Hongbo also has to keep his promise to move the Shangguan clan over, so Shangguan Hongbo sent two clansmen over to give the Shangguan clan a front stop, and at the latest in April next year, the base camp of the Shangguan clan will be moved to Zezhou City.

On the twenty-tenth day of November, Yun Yi took Shangguan Xiying and Yuan Xin, two daughters, to leave Zezhou City under the escort of the personal guards, and marched towards Yunhua County in the south of Zezhou, with more than 100 horses galloping in the cold wind.

Yun Yi originally did not have a personal guard, but Yun Yi, as the commander of the Yun Family Army, could not have a personal guard, so Yun Yi drew more than 100 people from the (Tianluo) earth network he formed to form a personal guard.

The captain of the pro-guard team is Huang Lin, who already has the strength of the fifth order of the day after tomorrow, and he is not far from the sixth order of the day after tomorrow, while the lowest strength of other ordinary guards is also the third order of the day after tomorrow.

Yunyi's personal guard is completely composed of warriors, each with a good war horse, a strong bow for long-range attack, a simple knife for close combat, and a spear for charging.

From a distance, the guards galloping south were like an imposing black dragon, and the few pedestrians they encountered on the road also quickly retreated to the side of the road to avoid it, not daring to provoke this black dragon that seemed to be devouring people.

On the third day of October, Yun Yi led the Yun family army to the expedition, and now it is late November, and the weather is getting colder and colder.

This time the Yun family army went out, it was really smooth sailing, the two divisions of the Yun family army attacked the city in two ways, there was no enemy everywhere they passed, and the Yun family army itself did not suffer much damage, not only rescued the remaining Dingxiang Shangguan clan, but also finally conquered Zezhou City, capturing 30,000 people, including the Holy Maiden of the Light Sect, and now Zezhou has completely fallen into the hands of the Yun family.

Recalling that at the beginning, when the news of the Yun family's army going to go on an expedition spread, many people in Yunhua County thought that Yun's move was unwise, how could the strength of the Guangming Army be the enemy of the Yun Family's army, and the number of the Guangming Army was also several times that of the Yunjia Army, so it was impossible for the Yunjia Army to defeat the Guangming Army, it was better to defend Yunhua County, and it was possible to keep Yunhua County.

However, the good news that kept coming into Yunhua County was like a slap in the face of countless people from those people, it turned out that the Yun family army was stronger, and the Guangming army was not the opponent of the Yun family army, until the end, the Yun family army captured Zezhou City, and they all understood that Zezhou was already surnamed Yun.

The howling cold wind can't stop Yunyi's footsteps of returning home, time passes day by day, Yunhua County is close at hand, Yunyi can't wait to fly back home in the next moment, and stay warm with Shangguan Yuling.

On Yun Yi's side, Shangguan Xiying looked at Yunhua City in front of her, but she was a little melancholy in her heart, she was about to meet her own sister again after six years of separation, she was Yun Yi's maid, but her sister was Yun Yi's wife, alas!

Note 1: The ratio of extreme recruitment is 5 to 1, that is, one out of five people joins the army, and the rest are women, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled.